אוֹצָר
ʼôwtsâr · o-tsaw'
a depository
Lexicon
Derivation: from H686 (אָצַר);
a depository
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: armory, cellar, garner, store(-house), treasure(-house) (-y).
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › to fasten and establish › to pursue the straight path › the head, the highest
Strength, the leader that works to fasten and establish that works to pursue the straight path of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אוֹצָר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
79 occurrences · 79 OT · 0 NT · 64 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and the treasures7 · 16%
- among my treasures3 · 7%
- and in the treasures3 · 7%
- the treasures3 · 7%
- out of his treasures2 · 4%
- treasure2 · 4%
- in the treasures2 · 4%
- to the treasure2 · 4%
- into the treasury2 · 4%
- treasures2 · 4%
- in his treasures2 · 4%
- into the treasure2 · 4%
- and treasuries1 · 2%
- and of the treasuries1 · 2%
- of the treasuries1 · 2%
- thence all the treasures1 · 2%
- cellars1 · 2%
- and over the storehouses1 · 2%
- were over all the treasures1 · 2%
- of the treasures1 · 2%
- which were over the treasures1 · 2%
- and over the cellars1 · 2%
- and over the treasures1 · 2%
- was over the treasures1 · 2%
- among the treasures1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.